 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 sider
...billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ! But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 58 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 sider
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far awav on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Brilon has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring... | |
 | 1862 - 512 sider
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard, by... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 sider
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | 1842 - 414 sider
...sorrow ! Liphtly they'll think of the spirit that's gone, But still we will never upbraid them, — For little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Father has laid him. Soon was our hard and heavy task done, When, warned it was time for retiring,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 sider
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we far away on the billow ! e to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave? Is But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 sider
...billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 sider
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, 'And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 sider
...! they '11 talk of the spirit that '3 gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 
